Brad McLeod
Cement the Freedom Square plaque or get rid of it
June 15, 2015Last week, thousands of new graduands walked across the Academic Quadrangle to Convocation Mall to receive their degrees from SFU. On their way, they passed through perhaps the most historically significant location at our university, which was made famous as a rally point for the struggle for academic freedom: ‘East Convocation Mall.’ At least, that’s what you would think it was called if you were a visitor to our campus last week. Though for the rest of the year this area is known as ‘Freedom Square,’ and during the time that SFU receives more visitors than ever, the podium and…
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Inspired by Rosa Parks, student with laptop refuses to move to back of lecture hall
November 10, 2014An SFU student took a dramatic stand Tuesday afternoon in favour of what she describes as her “inalienable right to make everyone behind her watch her browse Etsy.” Despite being asked several times by her professor to move, in accordance…
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Progressive grade-schooler announces fair trade offerings for Fruit Roll-Up
October 20, 2014In a historic decision that has been generating buzz all around the playground, second-grade student Billy Stanford has made a pledge to honour only 100 per cent fair trade offers for his strawberry Fruit Roll-up. Although in the past Stanford…
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Female Body Inspector forced to go undercover at family dinner, put on a sweater
September 22, 2014Despite routinely displaying his role as a trained and trusted FBI: Female Body Inspector, a 13-year old operative is reportedly working undercover at tonight’s dinner — you know, because grandma’s coming. Justin Wilderman, who’s been an FBI for almost three…
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Nuclear missile codes leaked in botched nude celebrity photo hack attempt
September 8, 2014Inspired by last week’s infamous leaked photos of dozens of Hollywood’s top actresses, a new hack attempt of Google Drive almost caused further damage; fortunately, all that was compromised were the US’ top-secret nuclear launch codes. The unknown Google Drive…
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God publishes brand new Bible story on his website
July 13, 2014Fans of the Bible rejoiced this week after God unexpectedly dropped a new story on his website featuring all their favourite characters revealing what they’ve been up to since “Revelations.” The story, in which everyone from Jesus to Moses and…
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Breaking free of the comfort zone
July 7, 2014Webster’s Dictionary doesn’t define “a bad opening sentence” but if it did, this would probably be example one. As you can probably already tell, I have no problem breaking the ice with my razor sharp satirical wit in written format.…
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Professors Read Mean Reviews About Themselves
June 24, 2014We caught up with a few SFU professors and engaged in some good old fashioned self-deprecation.
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Scruff Enough
March 24, 2014The Peak met with Joel, president and founder of the SFU Beard Club. We follow Joel in his efforts to be recognized by the SFSS as an official club. Starring Joel Mackenzie Created by Brandon Hillier, Alysha Seriani and Brad…
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Hitler had the right idea
March 17, 2014Right off the bat, I feel like I should apologize to anyone who I may have offended. It’s not often that I write for any section other than The Peak‘s illustrious and often irreverent humour section, so each semester when…
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